http

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Overview

Package http implements "http" probe type that test HTTP(S) servers.

The value of the probe will be 0 if HTTP server responds with status between 200 and 299, or 1.0 for other status values, connection errors, or timeouts.

If parse is true, the response body will be interpreted as a floating point number, and will be used as the probe value.

Basic authentication can be used by embedding user:password in url.

The constructor takes these parameters:

Name       Type     Default   Description
url        string             URL to test HTTP server.
method     string   GET       Method to use.
agent      string   goma/0.1  User-Agent string.
proxy      string             URL for proxy server.  Optional.
header     map[string]string  HTTP headers.  Optional.
parse      bool     false     See the above description.
errval     float64  0         When parse is true and command failed,
                              this value is returned as the probe value.